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  • loan
  • Description

    Wang Keping is a self-taught sculptor born in 1949 in Beijing. After being active in the Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), he was a founding member of the dissident Stars group (Xingxing pai) in 1979. In 1984 he settled in Paris with his French wife Catherine.

    Based on extract from Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009)

  • Details

    Associated place
    EuropeFrance Paris Department Paris (place of creation)
    Date
    2005
    Artist/maker
    Wang Keping (born 1949) (sculptor)
    Material and technique
    wood
    Dimensions
    54.2 x 19.1 x 11.5 cm (height x width x depth)
    Material index
    organicvegetal wood
    Technique index
    formed carved,
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
    Accession no.
    LI1486.26
  • Further reading

    Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 96 on p. 287, illus. p. 287 fig. 96

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    • currently in research collection

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